Review Article

Evidence-Based Study to Compare Daodi Traditional Chinese Medicinal Material and Non-Daodi Traditional Chinese Medicinal Material

Table 2

Study content categorization of the included studies.

CategoryCharacteristicNumber (%) of studies,

Contents of article Clinical trial1 (0.9%)
Animal experiment6 (5.6%)
GBS and soil physical/chemical properties2 (1.9%)
Medicinal composition24 (22.4%)
Medicinal composition, GBS, and soil physical-chemical property15 (14.0%)
Methodology to ascertain Daodi59 (55.1%)

Medicinal speciesAtractylodis Rhizoma, Lonicerae Japonicae Flos13 (12.1%)
Angelicae Sinensis Radix9 (8.4%)
Dioscoreae Rhizoma8 (7.5%)
Scutellariae Radix, Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix7 (6.5%)
Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix et Rhizoma6 (5.6%)
Chuanxiong Rhizoma5 (4.7%)
Rehmanniae Radix, Paeonia Lactiflora4 (3.7%)
Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata, Alismatis Rhizoma3 (2.8%)
Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, Scrophulariae Radix, Polygalae Radix2 (1.9%)
Others1 (0.9%)